by Richard William Nelson | Sep 28, 2017
The armored dinosaur fossil, preserved in exquisite detail and unearthed in a western Canadian oil sand mine, highlights the new daunting challenges facing the theory of evolution.
This stunningly preserved fossil is shattering long-standing paradigms. “The more I look at it,” said Michael Greshko, science writer for National Geographic, “the more mind-boggling it becomes.”
Caleb Brown (picture-right), a paleobiologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where the fossil was placed on exhibit in August, explained to Greshko,
“We don’t just have a skeleton… We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”
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by Richard William Nelson | Jul 1, 2017
In 1835, the Galapagos Islands piqued a young British naturalist’s endless curiosity. Equipped with technologies not much beyond a clock, compass, measuring tape, scale, thermometer, clinometer, and microscope, the experience eventually propelled Charles Darwin to propose a new world-shattering theory of evolution in his 1859 book, The Origin of Species.
Since then, technological advances have revolutionized scientific investigations, upending Darwin’s finches with a new Galapagos icon of evolution.
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by Richard William Nelson | May 24, 2017
Ancient fungal clues recently discovered off the coast of South Africa further stretch the boundaries of the theory of evolution.
Birger Rasmussen, a geology professor at the Western Australian School of Mines, was drilling at a depth of 2,600 feet for the purpose of dating the ancient submarine lava in the Ongeluk Formation, estimated to be 2.4 billion years old in Northern Cape Province of South Africa, when he unexpectedly noticed what appeared to be microfilaments (pictured).
“I was startled to find a dense mesh of tangled fossilized microbes,” Rasmussen said in an interview with LiveScience writer Jerry Redfern last month. To Marlowe Hood, writing for Phys.org, Rasmussen recalled that “My attention was drawn to a series of petrified gas bubbles, and when I increased the magnification of the microscope, I was startled.” The bubbles were “filled with hundreds of exquisitely preserved filaments that just screamed ‘life.’” In the words of Science Alert writer Peter Dockrill, “It’s raising some big evolutionary questions.”
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by Richard William Nelson | Dec 29, 2016
To think that shape affects function – or form follows function – is an implicit assertion used ubiquitously throughout the evolution industry. This assumption, however, is untested. As an evolutionary biologist, Fouad El Baidouri (pictured right below) of the University of Lincoln, UK, explains –
“Despite a few pioneering attempts to link bacterial form and function, functional morphology is largely unstudied in prokaryotes [microbes].”
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by Richard William Nelson | Jul 28, 2016
In the native land of Charles Darwin, for the first time, the Royal Society is challenging evolutionary academia to develop a new theory of biological evolution. As the original science organization in Western Civilization, the Society explains the problem with today’s most popular current theory:
“Developments in evolutionary biology and adjacent fields have produced calls for revision of the standard theory of evolution, although the issues involved remain hotly contested.”
Increasingly, the standard theory of evolution has been challenged in the wake of the twentieth-century genomic revolution.
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The armored dinosaur fossil, preserved in exquisite detail and unearthed in a western Canadian oil sand mine, highlights the new daunting challenges facing the theory of evolution.
To think that shape affects function – or form follows function – is an implicit assertion used ubiquitously throughout the evolution industry. This assumption, however, is untested. As an evolutionary biologist, 
In the native land of 